I'd argue that you see the same thing in Sweden as in Norway, but without the oil in Sweden's case. The music industry in Sweden is huge. Check out who wrote a

I'd argue that you see the same thing in Sweden as in Norway, but without the oil in Sweden's case. The music industry in Sweden is huge. Check out who wrote and produced many of the US top hits over the last 30 years. Not to speak of the local Swedish bands who make it big internationally. The software industry is also huge in Sweden (Spotify, Skype, Minecraft, Battlefield, Klarna, Candy Crush, etc). The explanation for this is largely that the kids who grew up in the late 70s and in the 80s got very good support from their parents in getting their own home computer where they could learn to program. This is very similar to young chess players in Norway. Sweden also punches well above its weight in some sports. Winter sports are kinda a given for a Nordic country, but tennis doesn't fit into that mold. Yet Sweden dominated tennis for a while. This was due to parents and society supporting young kids learning to play tennis in the 60s and 70s.